Comments on: You’re Welcome. Now, How Much Did This Cost? And Who ARE Those People?

By: Ralph SS

Ralph SS — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:27:38 +0000

The black gal w/ long hair….in the middle? I’m pretty sure she was on the Sgt. Pepper cover.

By: ronin

ronin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:25:26 +0000

I think it was in bad taste for Chrysler to put out this snarky advert. It is obviously sarcastic. It knows that the overwhelming majority of Americans were against it, but were forced by their democratic rulers to give it up anyway. Therefore this is a bit of bitchy snottiness directed at the taxpayers.

By: Ronnie Schreiber

Ronnie Schreiber — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:23:09 +0000

God forbid a retail company with a damaged reputation should actually advertise and try to curry favor with consumers and taxpayers. If they hadn’t run the ad, the usual suspects would be complaining that they’re ungrateful.

Detroit can do no right.

There’s an old punk band from LA named after an idiom that’s rather descriptive of some discussions about Detroit. A rough approximation would be “echo chamber”. Or, “amen chorus” if you prefer paleocon rhetoric.

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By: jnik

jnik — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:35:18 +0000

“You wouldn’t buy our shitty cars but we got your money anyway!”

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:07:01 +0000

Wow. I had opposed the auto bailout, but that was before I realized what an utterly correct mix of genders and skin colors is shown in this stock Getty Images crowd photo that was purchased by Chrysler’s marketing people. Now I see the error in my ways. We should give ~~Cerberus~~ Chrysler even MORE money with which to ~~buy their yachts~~ employ their diverse peoples.

By: Landcrusher

Landcrusher — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:48:38 +0000

Those are the folks that Verizon rejected for their advertisements.

By: gakoenig

gakoenig — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:36:59 +0000

Aside from the Challenger, you’d be hard pressed to find any Chrysler that people would love to get their hands on.

Wrangler JK… That is a pretty neat vehicle, but a niche.

By: asickmf

asickmf — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:28:09 +0000

thanks for letting someone else decide to spend your money to help us keep build crap cars that we can try and sell to you

By: Sajeev Mehta

Sajeev Mehta — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:26:29 +0000

That first bullet point sounds like a flat-out lie: what besides a new Grand Cherokee is in the pipeline? Aside from the Challenger, you’d be hard pressed to find any Chrysler that people would love to get their hands on.

By: dougjp

dougjp — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:15:28 +0000

Responding to this one in an appropriate manner was easy. All I did was cut and paste the following part from the Article above this one:

” Our second story is so repulsive and national-pride-obliterating that we have to hide it behind the jump. Grab a barf bag and a change of citizenship form and check it out… “

By: SunnyvaleCA

SunnyvaleCA — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:48:53 +0000

“This ranks right up there with the marketing brilliance of the US Mint in advertising new money.”

Advertising new money is brilliant. Did you realize that the state quarters program alone has increased the average per-household wealth by $12.50? Ooops… not quite yet, not everyone has found a Hawaii quarter yet.

By: Rix

Rix — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:34:52 +0000

I think the first draft read

“Thanks, for the cash, suckers. Love, Cerberus.”

By: hotjazz

hotjazz — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:04:20 +0000

“Thanks” usually is due when someone has volunteered a helping hand. There was no free will involved here. “America” didn’t get a say in this “investment”.

A great example of what money gets spent on when someone else is footing the bill.

By: rpol35

rpol35 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:33:56 +0000

Thank you? Like I had a choice……….

By: seabrjim

seabrjim — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:08:29 +0000

Thank you America? Get your lips off of the back of my trousers, I didnt authorize this! Thank the sell out politicians, I will never buy from Chrysler again. Ever.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:47:23 +0000

No Ken you are not getting that money back.
President BO will soon be making that payoff look like chicken feed.

By: Ken Elias

Ken Elias — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:12:58 +0000

The first line of the body copy reads “Thank you for investing in Chrysler.” Someone needs to tell Nardelli that a loan isn’t an investment – and we want our money back with interest.

By: jkross22

jkross22 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:01:52 +0000

How much of our money went to pay for this crappy ad?

By: carlisimo

carlisimo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:01:47 +0000

Is that picture new or is it from Chrylser’s last bailout?

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:50:19 +0000

F’ off and die, Bob.

By: Cyril Sneer

Cyril Sneer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:50:13 +0000

“Why don’t you thank us by getting rid of the Sebring, Avenger, Compass, Caliber, Aspen, Durango, Nitro, Commander, PT Cruiser, and Crossfire, and replace them with something that isn’t an insult to the average American car buyer’s intelligence?”

Wow, that is quite a list. And truly embarassing, every single one…

You forgot the Patriot though; no reason for it to get a free pass.

By: bjcpdx

bjcpdx — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:16:59 +0000

I was going to say that Chrysler certainly isn’t “America’s Car Company” as they state in the first line of text. But I guess they kind of are, now. Just not in a good way.

Those bobbleheads in the photo never stood in the same room with one another. Pick almost any two that are next to each other and you’ll see that light and shadow hits them at different angles.

By: ajla

ajla — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:01:27 +0000

In lieu of the stock crowd photo, I wish they would have gone with a shot of the new Dodge Ram driving through an exploding US Capitol building .

By: JT

JT — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:45:24 +0000

Look; all of you…

Never forget that one of Cerberus’s
vice presidents is Dan Quayle.

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:38:00 +0000

Dammit, they could at least give us some return address labels like a proper charity.

I throw away the return address labels if I haven’t given to the charity, but unfortunately I’ve already given to this charity.